I’ve had a fall and hurt myself - cheer me up

[B0D]

I feel stupid , and sore!
I was carrying heavy bags that I think unbalanced me when I missed my footing.

nothings broken, but one elbow is really really sore ☹️ like I think it will be much worse tomorrow … woe is me

I'm recovering from illness and a couple of days ago, I stood up, farted and blew myself back down

Third date with lovely new man and he took me to a local historic house for an outdoor theatre. I decided to wear a lovely pair of high wedge heels. Bad idea… the approach to the house was an uneven gravel pathway. I did a full on Naomi Campbell (minus her graceful recovery). People crowding around us while date helped me to my feet.

And if that wasn't all embarrassing enough, I then spotted my friend and her husband at the top of the path doubled over with laughter!

@CharlotteCChapel did your illness make you lose slot of weight!?

What sort of age are you OP? This is important in determining whether you "had a fall" or "fell over"!

Hope you are feeling better soon.

@DelilahMy
the embarrassment is unreal isn’t it. Hope your date helped you up!
I can’t believe I was in a really crowded spot and as I came down ( in slow motion) it was almost as if they parted to give me space to hit the deck

I’m nearly 60

I’ve just spent half the day in A&E with the husband who’s managed to slip on a wet floor at work, and knacker both his knees in the process.
Almost a year to the day after he slipped on a marble staircase at work & fractured his elbow 😂 🤦‍♀️
Cant wait to see what next year brings!

Im not usually accident prone

Gonna get some ice on it (sniff)

I feel over backwards on a cucumber that I had accidentally dropped in the middle of a supermarket. I was trying to pick it up at the time.

The cucumber was fatally injured and many passers by looked concerned.

I did the 'bounce back up' move, deeply embarrassed and unfortunately aware that I have now reached an age where people will call an ambulance if I stay down too long.

I lost some but despite being seriously ill it wasn't longlasting. Saying that though it's going to take months to fully recover. At the moment most food tastes weird though so I may well lose more.

@hagchic you make it sound more comical than my mishap !

sorry to hear your still poorlly @CharlotteCChapel . Hope you’re feeling better soon

Lol Kevin Bridges does a joke where he says you know you’re old when if you fall, instead of people standing by just laughing they look concerned and try to help you up and ask if you need an ambulance!

@B0D hope the next few days aren’t too awful and that the stories here have given you a laugh at least 🙂🙃

I was messing about with my 6yo and her best friend in the park after school. They were trying to catch me and I was making little sideways dodges I used to do in netball. Unfortunately I am no longer in my 20s and I went over on my ankle with an audible crack. I was very dizzy and had to sit for a few minutes, at which point several of the other parents came over to see if I was OK. The ankle swelled hugely, turned black, and I couldn't drive for a week. It is still a bit dodgy a couple of months on.

The last time I rode a bike I forgot you had to put your foot down when you stopped so me and bike simply fell in a graceful arc to one side (think del boy through the bar hatch) and landed very heavily on the wet pavement. Mortifying…and painful!

Smiling at these similar tales of woe.

Fell over in my living room 2 weeks ago after losing my balance (can't even remember how it happened) and, after doing a desperate little dance to try and regain my balance, came crashing down, hitting the side of my torso on my kids' wooden chair. I'm as sure as I can be without getting an x ray that I managed to crack a rib.

My lovely mum is 84 and the queen of all falls (not just recently but as long as I remember). One of the best was when she elegantly slid on ice, pirouetted like a pro and ended smack on her arse in front of a dustbin cart. The men all rushed to help but she refused, stood up, slipped, pirouetted back the other way and landed on the feet of one of the men. He very gallantly helped her up and she huffed all the way home.

I swear she trips over air! A lot scarier now at 84

I once fell down the stairs in my new job when my new shoes got stuck under a stair edge. Top to bottom. I was always known as 'Purple, you know the one that fell down the stairs'. These days I trip over kids bags in the classroom.

I fell over on a gravel path at the weekend and could not get up.

Had a choice of crawling 30 feet over the gravel back to my house or 5 feet to the neighbours drive and using their metal gates to try to get up.

Inevitably they chose that moment to return after a day out .....next time I will choose the longer route.

@hagchic I pine for the days of the bounce back. Last time I fell, it took my husband and poor, helpful, random bloke to haul me upright. It was very dark and helpful, random bloke probably didn't realise he was covered in (my) blood until he got home - the horror, the horror . . .

You definitely ‘fell over’ op. Give it another decade and, in exactly the same circumstances, you’d have ‘had a fall’! Hope you recover quickly and don’t feel too bashed about in the morning.

I slipped on a puddle of water in a classroom and spreadeagled on the floor as I landed..I had to crawl out on my hands and knees - I was mortified!
I badly sprained my ankle 😫

I'm the master of calamities. I posted here before about my old dog, toast, concussion and a broken nose some years ago.

'New' elderly dog I rehomed almost a year ago. She's 9yrs. My fault, she lands on my face in bed when she thinks it's breakfast time. I ignore until it is time. 7am . I insist she waits, she's always behind me and she is slooooow down the stairs. Few weeks ago, that didn't work, she took my feet out from under me, sent me flying down the stairs (luckily tiny and narrow as am in a cottage but steep), left me with a broken bone in my foot and twisted knee. AND had the temerity to give me a side eye because it took a while for said breakfast to be served.

I did get my own back not long after. I let her go first down the stairs, I was desperate for a wee (bathroom downstairs), she suddenly stopped, I carried on, ended up sitting on her after sailing over a stair or two, busted my wrist and literally peed on her head!

In local supermarket, stopped to chat to an acquaintance I vaguely know, pivoted around really quickly as I was saying bye and caught my foot in my trousers and ended up in that daft half fall, stumble across the aisle for what seemed like forever, I managed to not actually fall but for some unbeknownst reason I threw the shopping basket full of groceries across the floor, including a cooked chicken and it landed in the open hatch of the frozen food compartment - hot greasy chicken everywhere and me trying to fish a box of tampons from the frozen peas. Everyone just starred.